Teargas Poems - Poems about Teargas

...Their hands raise with ours and for a moment we are all standing in perfect unity, every set of fingers curled in anger and defiance - and then they throw the tear gas. Which is rich, Because how......Read the rest...

...Creation of a generation Generating anticipation Alterations of duration's While siting in frustration Looks of men as children Sticks and stones Breaking bones While throwing stones Fir......Read the rest...

... Some knew him, Some knew him not, We all knew him somehow; Nobody knew what he had become, What he had always been, Digital platforms were closed On towards evening And in the next ev......Read the rest...

...Life is a life Driving home I nearly hit a rabbit braked hard and the can of lager fell out of my hand. We country folk drinks a lot; the police never stop you unless you drive off the road and ......Read the rest...

...Teargas is bottled oxygen The genius who invented it should be sanctified as saint for bringing new form of air the ones who use it on duty are heartless angels of happiness they bring joy to......Read the rest...

...Red and blue lights in the night A black and white drifting on rights Empty hearts galvanized Open palms weaponized Hope flushing down the drain Flooded by spits of acid rain Voices rise in mis......Read the rest...

...If this is freedom take me to Robinson Island When shall we again sing the redemption songs? The strings of freedom are long forgotten in my nation Injustice is their system and we pledge to res......Read the rest...

...Tomorrow where are you ? I am a child of mzansi, A child of a nation raised by a struggle of apartheid, as I emerge as a wound Meant to glister, advertising the anguish of my fore fathers Ra......Read the rest...

...These footsteps are a dotted line A pulsating heartbeat on a timeline Your curiosity fills in the blank spots Guessing which stereotype‘s my blind spot You can plot a healthy graph from my boun......Read the rest...

...His musings in paper and ink have led him to the dungeons. Rusty iron bars, smell of rats, and cold wars surround him. His people see through their leaders, like water through the glass. Nothing......Read the rest...

...For the chance to learn in plain English Be afforded equal opportunity to accomplish For a father to dream better for his son, how I wish For a people to destroy another’s culture, how selfish ......Read the rest...

...When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said “I have a dream,” we all nodded and shouted sharing our feelings because his dream was the same as all those who lived under oppression. When he appeale......Read the rest...

...Where were you when i lived on gunshots and teargas, When the violence intensified and put fear on us, When the police brutality coasted me a friend and my face, When the eviction notice saw me pa......Read the rest...

...One day,I stood on the mountain Watching security forces using force to disperse demonstrators Who had gathered in the commercial capital___ Blocked off traffic to a large part of the city: To prote......Read the rest...

...I did'nt deserve to watch my mom break down over nerves I did'nt deserve for nightly my dads sleep to be disturbed I did'nt deserve for life to be the judge and jury's words I did'nt deserve prison o......Read the rest...